Main navigation

Philosophy

How many useless thoughts do you carry with you that let you down? All of those self-limiting opinions that cause you to frown. Those are the Lightning Zaps that take you down. It is not your outer environment that causes you problems, it is the stormy weather that you entertain within – like frightening moods, frozen attitudes, and scary imaginings. Those are the Lightning Zaps. Have you felt them?

No man or woman consciously harms himself or herself. Every man who lives a life of struggle and pain, unconsciously harms himself. He does it unconsciously because he’s unable to see all of the burdensome thoughts that he has piled upon himself. All Lightning Zaps.

It is time to close the dungeon within your mind. Turn it into a shrine. Dare to adore yourself for all of the hidden talents and strengths that you’ve not yet uncovered. Now get out there and prove it’s true.

John was invited to an event on Halloween eve. He was excited about it. He would get to dress up in his pirate costume, complete with an eye patch, a peg leg and a sword. He was looking forward to “letting his hair down” and getting rowdy at the party as a pirate. “You can pretty much do anything that you want at a costume party,” he thought.

When John arrived at the party with his peg leg and patch over his left eye, he entered swinging his sword and saying loudly, “Ai Mate!” He was shocked and embarrassed to find out that it wasn’t supposed to be a wild costume affair. In fact it wasn’t really a party. Everyone was dressed in their after work attire, and the event was quite sedate. It was an intervention. A friend, Steve, had a drinking problem and all of his friends had gathered to confront him with this.

John immediately left the party, went home and changed into his somber attire. He returned to the party with a very different attitude, and acted very differently.

The point of the story is that we wear many costumes as we go through our days and weeks and months and years. It seems that we never settle on one, but allow the circumstances and the environment to dictate who we will be. The personality that shows up at a funeral is a very different one than the one attending the seventh game of the World Series.

From the viewpoint of reality you have no specific identity – you represent infinity. Have you ever given that any thought? The infant is just being his or her infinite self. Everything goes. But once you become part of society there are many personas – many face-masks you wear, many personalities you express. We all have multiple personalities!

May I ask you a question? Which persona do you most enjoy expressing – rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief? Triumphant victor? Helpless victim? Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief (what would those equivalents be for you?)

When it comes to choosing your personality, do you choose what is right or choose what is expected of you? Do you choose what is original or choose what is demanded? When consciously knowing what personality you’re showing, it is amazing how much more pleasurable your life can be.

Have you heard the story of the hiker who had rocks in his pocket, chains around his ankles, a brick in each hand and a bale of hay strapped to his back? Yep, and there he was hiking up a hill, hoping to make it to the top by sun fall.

Half way up the hill he came across a fellow who asked, “Why do you have that bale of hay strapped to your back?” The hiker replied, “My gosh, I didn’t realize I had a bale of hay strapped to my back. He immediately removed it and felt wonderfully relieved.

As he continued up the hill, he met a young lady who asked him why he was carrying a brick in each hand, and he said, “Oh my God, I hadn’t noticed.” He immediately dropped them, and it felt exhilarating.

Again, as he advanced upward toward the top of the hill, he ran into a young lad that asked what the point of the chains around his ankle was. He looked down and said, “There is no point, and I’m glad you pointed that out.?” He removed the chains and felt more mobile than ever before.

You guessed it; he then walked past an old gentleman who asked him what was bulging in his pockets. When he realized they were rocks, he emptied his pockets, and for the first time in his life he felt completely free.

As he was made aware of his many burdens (limiting beliefs, fears, doubts and feelings of guilt), he was a new man. He found himself at the top of the hill, ready to take on the challenge of the high mountain next week, and he achieved that vision in half the time he had anticipated.

Now, what in the world does this story have to do with you? You tell me, or better still – tell yourself. What burdens do you need to rid yourself of, so you can climb higher mountains in your life?

You watch a movie where there’s a car wreck. “That has nothing to do with me,” you think. A month later you’re in an auto accident. “Those two things aren’t related,” you say. Oh yes, they are very much related. Nothing happens to you that you’ve not imagined happening in some way, shape or form.

Take the above wisdom seriously. Have you yet noticed how my lessons help you turn the pressures of your life-struggles into forces for successful living?

Someone tells you a story of a friend who has just achieved something great. The story impresses a vision on your mind. You walk through your day with that vision in your subconscious; it’s gathering energy. That mental picture becomes your Manifesting-Power. That power attracts energy and directs it onto that physical screen that you call reality. The next thing you know, you have just succeeded at something that is important to you.

Life flows from the inner to the outer. Pull up the director’s chair; take a seat and pay attention to what you pay attention to. What you pay attention to on the internet, on television, and with what your friends talk about – all of that has everything to do with what happens to you. It’s your mental screen, what scene will you accept on that screen?

Student: What do you mean when you say, “go mental” if you want to win?

Teacher: A mental picture is a scene you play on your mental screen. The subconscious acts on pictures not words. That’s why affirmations for the most part are nothing but shallow repetition. The winning process is largely a series of mental scenes that the subconscious acts upon. Thomas Edison referred to it as constructive visualization. He said his inventions were 90% constructive visualization and 10% perspiration.

Student: Wow, I had that completely turned around. I thought “putting your nose to the grindstone” was the way to win at life. And I assumed that to mean 99% hard work and 1% visualization.

Teacher: I once met a homeless man who told me, “You don’t know how hard I have to work to be this poor.” That might give you a clue about what ‘just working hard’ will do to you. Go Mental on your aims and aspirations; that’s the key to succeeding.

Teacher: If life is a test, does that mean that you could flunk? Can you cheat? What do you have to do to pass the test? Can you get an A on the test?

Student: What if I said that life is a game?

Teacher: If life is a game, is it a game that is fun to play? Does that mean there are winners and losers? Do you have the skill to be a winner?

Student: What if I said life is sacred?

Teacher: If life is sacred, does that mean you have reverence for life?

Student: What if I said life is a gift?

Teacher: Would that mean life is offering pleasant surprises? My point for asking this question is to point out the power of metaphors. Metaphors paint pictures in your mind. Pictures cause you to react to life according to the painted picture. We are expanded by empowering metaphors. We are contracted by disempowering metaphors. Changing one metaphor can change the way you look at your life. Pay attention to your metaphors – do they give you wings to soar or clamp you in chains?